creatively yours website design news and blog
creatively yours website design news and blog
Website Design News from Creatively Yours, with a dash of Small Business Helponomics. If we feel it will help our customers we will publish it, if we come across useful information we will pass it on. Also from our own desks, perhaps some bits and pieces that might shed some light on running a business.
Do not underestimate the power of word of mouth
Good or bad, what people are saying about your company is spread faster than ever before. In our recent post we discussed the fact that customers now have a Megaphone not just a voice! (https://creatively-yours.co.uk/importance-of-customer-service/ and we pointed out that, rightly or wrongly, social media has given many more people…
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Islands in an ocean of really poor service.
In a recent blog post we looked at the idea that, despite the ongoing movement towards the use of AI and the increasing ways that companies can be contacted. Where we should be living in a golden age of brilliant customer service it feels that something has and is going…
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Taking Service Seriously
It was great today to come across another company that looks at the lifetime value of a customer, in much the same way as we have always promoted. In previous blogs we have extolled the virtues of accepting that things occasionally go wrong, no matter how hard you try. There…
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SMEs Losing Confidence
With the new government’s ‘honeymoon’ period coming to an end, although some felt this ended some time ago, small business owners are now hoping that the current political upheaval is now over. For those in power, they should be worried about the latest research from Virgin StartUp as part of…
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Have you heard of the Small Business Council?
Not a fatuous question but one of overall communications from Governments and Councils. In fact it was not until a networking meeting attended last week that this ‘new’ council was even mentioned. “SME Council membership revealed ahead of first meeting New Small Business Council meets for the first time to…
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Is the Internet Crumbling around us?
Depending on how much time you spend reading articles and listening to Podcasts online, you may, or may not, have heard the term ‘Dead Internet’ mentioned. In short, the reasoning behind this comes from studies showing that a great percentage of what you see and read online is now written…
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The Economic See-Saw
While politicians and economists do their best to persuade, mainly themselves, that the UK economy is doing well, in reality we have already fallen into a technical recession once this year and the remainder of the year looks set for more instability. A recent economist’s report in The Times has…
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Small Business Britain Report
The 10th annual State of Small Business Britain recently published, shows that despite small businesses making up more than 99% of the business population and accounting for more than 50% of jobs, the level of support available is currently insufficient and too fragmented. Over the last decade, small business growth…
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Customer’s now have a Megaphone not just a voice
It is almost certain that, at some time, you will have had a conversation that goes along these lines “Why are you doing XYZ for that customer, it was not part of their order…” usually from your Accounts Manager when looking at budgets. They have an absolute right to ask…
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We have looked online and as usual there are as many ‘experts’ disagreeing on what may or may not be contained in the budget, as there are areas where bills for the small business owner could increase. It is exactly this amount of indecision that hurts business almost as much as the eventual, possible tax…
You know things are bad when the only positive numbers are those shown in the Business Distress Index (produced by Real Business Rescue). This looks at the financial health of UK SME’s and gives a regional breakdown of distress levels. Regionally it shows that, compared to the same period in 2024, the South East has…
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